There is new evidence in the search for the Loch Ness Monster. A fossil of a giant “sea monster” has been discovered on an Arctic island. This doesn’t explain how it might have gotten to Scotland, but it does show that such creatures did once exist.

In BBC News, Paul Rincon quotes Paleontologist Angela Milner as saying, “One hundred and fifty million years ago, Svalbard [the island on which the fossils were discovered] was not so near the North Pole, there was no ice cap and the climate was much warmer than it is today.”
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